Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
C is quirky, flawed and an enormous success.
Dennis Ritchie
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
It's hard enough to find an error in your code when you're looking for it; it's even harder when you've assumed your code is error-free.
Steve McConnell
An idiot with a computer is a faster, better idiot.
Rich Julius
C trades a slap on the wrist at compile time for a knife in the back at run time.
Anonymous
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
Alan J. Perlis
Java is C++ without the guns, knives, and clubs.
James Gosling
It's 5.50 a.m.... Do you know where your stack pointer is?
Anonymous
First, solve the problem. Then, write the code.
John Johnson
We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.
Donald Knuth